Untangle 12 Installation and configuration
I am constantly on a quest to keep finding the better or best firewall/UTM appliance for home/lab purposes as well as for small business use cases where installing a virtual…
Year: 2016
Cisco SG300 time configuration
Recently, after working with some logging on my Cisco SG300-20 switch, I wanted to write up a quick post on Cisco SG300 time configuration and how to go about setting this…
Cisco Native VLAN mismatch
After installing a test Meraki MS220-8 switch in my lab environment at home, I noticed when I remoted into my core switch for my lab, a Cisco SG300-20, it was…
Arpwatch SMTP configuration
One of the more obscure sources of information when configuring arpwatch is arpwatch SMTP configuration. Â There are so many flavors of linux and SMTP servers, how can you easily setup…
Arpwatch Home Network Monitor
Let’s face it, these days, we all need to pay more attention to what is going on with our home networks. Â I have the mindset and maybe this is overkill…
ESXi 6 Equallogic reclaim free space
If you are thin provisioning VMs in your environment with an Equallogic SAN attached to your cluster, you may find that you start receiving warning from SAN HQ or your…
How to tweak performance ESXi 6.0
We might not think about tweaking of the ESXi hosts themselves for performance. Â While there are other major areas of performance consideration in a vSphere cluster such as your storage…
AppAssure powershell commandlets for administrators
If you administer an AppAssure environment, there is great power in using Powershell to do a lot of the heavy lifting. Â There are just some things about GUIs we all…
Create Linked Clone using PowerCLI ESXi 6
Guys, just wanted to write up a quick post on how to spin up a linked clone in ESXi 6.0 using only PowerCLI, this may come in handy if you…
Deploy Dell Virtual Storage Manager 4.5.2 in vCenter
For those of you who don’t know or haven’t seen the Dell Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) appliance, it is a virtual appliance provided by Dell which extends the functionality of vCenter…